When excavators discovered the skeleton of a medieval knight below a parking lot earlier this year, they gave no indication that there would be more to come from the site. But after further excavations at the car park, the remains of what researchers believe is the knight's family crypt have been unearthed, the Daily Mail reports.
Just yards from where the knight was uncovered, seven full skeletons and one partial skeleton have been found, including an adult female and an infant.
More remains may be discovered at the site, the archaeologists report.
"This site just keeps getting more and more interesting, it is turning out to be a real treasure trove of archaeology," said Ross Murray, the lead archaeologist at the site, according to the Daily Mail.
"We just can't seem to stop finding skeletons and bones."
Ross said that the newly found skeletons are likely to be relations of the knight found earlier this year.
"The skull of the skeleton found immediately beneath the location of the Knight looks like that of a female and the remains found on the other side of the ornate slab belong to an infant from the same period," he said.
Check out several great photos of the dig here.
The excavation site is at an old parking lot that was being demolished to make way for the the Edinburgh Center for Carbon Innovation (ECCI). The site is not far from the foundations of a 13th century Blackfriars Monastery founded by King Alexander II of Scotland, which was destroyed in 1558.
"We always knew that the building retrofit might uncover historical artifacts, given the site's history - but this knight is an extraordinary and exciting find," said ECCI director Andy Kerr said in an interview with Daily Mail in March.
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